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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS St. Louis, MO

May 25, 2004Madison County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2004, 5:11 PM CDT for Madison County, Missouri. It was in force for 34 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 25, 2004, 5:11 PM CDT (22:11 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2004, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Madison County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 25, 5:34 PM CDT	HAIL 0.75	Fredericktown, MO	REPORTED 1 MILE NORTH OF CHEROKEE PASS
May 25, 5:34 PM CDT	HAIL 0.75	Fredericktown, MO	REPORTED 1 MILE NORTH OF CHEROKEE PASS

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 25, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 306 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 919 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -391 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 688 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 134 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

758 
WUUS53 KLSX 252211
SVRLSX
MOC123-252245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
511 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MADISON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 511 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTH OF ROSELLE...MOVING EAST AT 50
  MPH. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THIS STORM WILL BE DAMAGING HAIL.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  FREDERICKTOWN
  JUNCTION CITY
  MARQUAND

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME
OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO
AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

LAT...LON 3765 9055 3741 9056 3742 9015 3765 9015

$$

TES/EL

The office that day

Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 7:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Shelby	66 min
May 24, 8:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Shelby	46 min
May 24, 9:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Marion	65 min
May 24, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Shelby	45 min
May 24, 9:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LSX	Shelby	6 hr
May 24, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Monroe	24 min
May 24, 10:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Ralls	40 min
May 24, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Monroe	49 min
May 24, 10:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Lewis	48 min
May 24, 10:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Marion, Shelby	58 min
May 24, 10:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Marion	60 min
May 24, 10:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LSX	Marion	5 hr
May 24, 10:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Ralls	25 min
May 24, 10:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Pike	39 min
May 24, 11:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Lincoln	39 min
May 24, 11:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Franklin, Gasconade, Osage, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, Warren and 1 more	62 min
May 25, 12:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Jefferson	47 min
May 25, 6:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Franklin, Gasconade	48 min
May 25, 12:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Callaway, Montgomery	52 min
May 25, 1:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Lincoln, Saint Charles, Warren	65 min
May 25, 1:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Saint Charles	48 min
May 25, 2:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis	40 min
May 25, 2:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Gasconade, Osage	47 min
May 25, 2:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis	28 min
May 25, 3:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Jefferson, Washington	59 min
May 25, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois	45 min
May 25, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Crawford	33 min
May 25, 4:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Sainte Genevieve	24 min
May 25, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Franklin, Gasconade	58 min
May 25, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Iron	46 min
May 25, 4:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LSX	Jefferson	3 hr

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.